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...But the crowning delight was Café de Paris butter, a confection of Edwardian gentlemen’s clubs and the grand restaurants long dead....
...“We ran the risk of going down that gentlemen’s club route. I said to her, ‘I need your help on uniforms, on art, on tablescapes, on smell.’...
...“The first strip club your mom ever went to,” Samer offered by way of explanation as the phone rang. My mother covered her mouth when she appeared on-screen. “No! It still exists?”...
...After decades of neglect, during which The Broadview was home to a rooming house and a particularly notorious strip club, the historic building underwent a three-year overhaul to reopen in 2017 as a luxurious...
...You’ll want to take advantage of the spa amenities beforehand, so as not get your face wet while the products are still on it (and you’ll be too relaxed afterwards to even contemplate doing any work or chores...
...I asked her if she could always tell when it was going to happen and, instead of talking about the show, she told me about her time spent working on the door at a Frankfurt club as an art student, and how...
...Unlike me, White believed that boxing had a business problem, not a cultural one. People in every part of the world, he says, still stop whatever they’re doing any time a fight breaks out to watch....
...JONAS JACKEL: It's called a-- BRIAN SMITH: --a gentlemen's club, called the Market Street Cinema. It was here for many years....
...(Fatefully, the one great PPEist Leaver was the media proprietor Rupert Murdoch, who in 1950s Oxford had been business manager of Cherwell and a Labour Club member.)...
...As far as Caring is concerned, the business of running a club is not dissimilar from his old life in what he calls the “rag trade”....
...It turns out Spencer’s choice of restaurant was all part of the showmanship: Oswald’s — a sister club of Robin Birley’s better-known 5 Hertford Street — allows members to store their own wine in the club...
...Yet the Devonshire advertises itself as “blurring the lines between business and pleasure”....
...The club had a rocky start under his ownership, falling out of the Premiership as coaches and executives bickered over the use of statistics to measure players....
...“Because, if you think about it,” says Spevak, “nobody wants to hang out in the hotel restaurant or the hotel lobby with another business traveller.” Twenty-five years ago, it was a different story....
...“As soon as I walked out there I thought, this is what I want to do.”...
...It counts as a skill. The grandest clubs work on it as they work on their eye of a needle passing movements....
...“Not many people were doing that with photos. Photos were seen as the most private type of content and Instagram really flipped that on its head and said photos can be really public.”...
...Newman’s seminal 1975 study of Canada’s cozy business aristocracy, The Canadian Establishment, the tradesman’s son decided that he had to join the country’s most inbred club....
...Parliamentary business used to run from the afternoon into the late evening so that “gentlemen” could attend to their estates or business interests in the morning....
...work best) run by gentlemen with slicked-back hairstyles, white jackets and a ready lighter to fire up a cigarette or cigar....
...As Subba Row, 82, recalls: “It was the era of gentlemen and players and there were separate dressing rooms....
...On the other hand, if you are doing business with New York, or just watching sports or talking with friends there, there is no time difference in the southern winter, and only two hours difference in the...
...Most of the older establishments now offer private rooms where meetings may be held or emails sent, but doing business in public is officially frowned upon....
...A far cry from the London gentlemen’s clubs of old, whose members were faithful for life, today’s club scene is a rather more fashionable affair....
...I laugh at its eccentricities, I relish its chutzpah, I share its ideology, I bask in its lovely setting beside the sea, and I use it as a kind of club....
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